We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.
I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.
When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.
The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.
I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.
The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.
You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.
. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. . . . Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.
Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt